Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-16
Ellis & overstreet win add another

Ellis q OverStreet VIII add another
room to their Office suite.
The ground is now moist enough for
the street grader to work well if the
city had any money to expend on its
streets.
Larned expects to have the d. NJ. s.
A. railroad inside of go days. Where
is the important town in Kansas that
is not expecting another railroad?
Commissioner McGrath still has a
touch of the "big-jaw,' as he calls it,
which not only mars his beauty, but
causes HIM to lose much interest in the
pleasure of eating.
c. t. Freeman is in Missouri. Next
week he will meet Judge Cook in Kan
sas City and the two will select furni-
thre for the court house and shelving
and fixtures for the record vaults.
A party OF young folks was organized
to go out to Mrs. Chapin's last Thurs
day night. The blizzard scared some of
them out of the notion, and the others
would not go unless all went. Conse-
quently the whole crowd is nursing dis
appointment.
Nescatunga Enterprise: 1.-The South
ern Kansas railway company has
decided not to take up the county
bonds, that were voted to the Chicago
Kansas & Western and transferred to
that company, unless Coldwater gives
SAC. 900 in bonds to run up to that town;
otherwise they Will run straight
through the county from Nescatunga
to Protection, and ask township aid
from those townships"
Sun City Union: Prohibition does
prohibit at this place just now. The
rattle of glasses and the popping of
corks is no longer heard i'll the land.
The veDder of the ardent smelleth the
battle afar off, and the manipulatOrs of
pictured paste boards paw up the val
| ley where the lion roareth and the
whangdOodle mourneth. Verify, the
findings of grand jury are past find
ing out, and the ways of an assistant
encouragement are beyond compre-
tension"
COldwater Review: THE drug stores
of Coldwater for year past have been
paying an occupation tax of 500 per
quarter. February 1st another was
due, and when the authorities went to
to make their usual collection they
were met by an injunction restraining
| tbam from fba oal1actiOD Of tI,a TOW or
arrest of the, druggists. The question
will soon come before Judge Ellis, and
our drug men will soon know whether
they will have to pony up'' or not"
The Kingman papers published fuller
particulars about the killing of Stephen
Bedford, by Taylor WhiteIaw, on the
5th inst. 1t appears that both had been
admirers of the same woman, and
quarreled about her. Saturday evening
they met, when Bedford struck White
law severe blow. The latter attempt
ed to shoot his assailant, but was dis
armed by his friend. Later in the night
Bedford, finding him coming out of
restaurant. A scufle ensued. when
Whitelaw fired five shots at Bedford
and four took effect, producing death,
instantly. Whitelaw dropped his pis-
tOl and ran, but was captured several
blocks away. Last Wednesday he was
released, on giving bond in the sum of
$4,000.
\ young lady, in this city, went out
early one morning last week, to get a
bucket of coal. She thought there was
no probability of any one seeing her,
and she was not as careful in arrang-
ing her dress as she might have been.
While she was getting the coal her best
fellow came along, and they had quite
chat. When she went into the house.
lady friend asked her, "Who was that
you were talking to-" She replied that
it was Judge Blank. "Well mercy
sakesl" exclaimed the lady friend, ito
think you were talking TO him, and the
back of your dress is bursted from CEN
ter TO circumference. and your hustle is
sticking out!' Hold me while faint"
exclaimed the young LADY, Il would not
have him to know that 1 wear hustle
for anything She has Thought the
matter over seriously since then, and
has concluded that Judge Blank is grow
ing cold, and she is going to give him
the grand bounce at the first opportuni-
ty.